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Sunday, 1 July 2018

Fibrex Nurseries 60th Anniversary Show Weekend - 16th June and an exciting announcement

I did not take many photo's of the sales houses filled with members of the public buying their plants. I went to two of three of the talks. I was booked into one given by Ursula Key-Davis, but it clashed with one other.

The first one was a talk given by David Taylor (Mr. Pelargonium to anyone who watches his Video Blogs on youTube). He told us how to prepare our plants for winter - cutting them right back to encourage growth from lower down on the plant. I've always been a bit scared to cut too low down, but will do so from now on - if I can! He then showed us how he takes the soil off the roots by washing them, and trimming then right back - to a very small ball of roots and then popping the plant back into a smaller pot.

The next talk was by Steve Pollard. I have heard this talk before, but I am always interested in anything to do with the zonartics, and to be honest I thought he was going o talk about how to care for them. But I still enjoyed the talk. What was exciting was the fantastic announcement he made that Cliff Blackman had written a book before he died, and his family have released it as an e-book. I'll put the link at the end.